My list of games which “blew me away”, which I found really remarkable.
1988?:
1992?:
1993:
Chaos Engine, Super Cars 2 (Amiga 600)
Doom (DOS, 486DX40)
Secret of Monkey Island (DOS, 486DX40)
1995:
Command and Conquer (DOS, CD-ROM)
UFO: Enemy Unknown (DOS, 2 floppy disks)
1998:
1999:
2003:
2008:
2017:
Black Mesa (Halflife remake, steam, Fedora)
Stellaris (strategy, steam@Fedora)
2019:
Chrono Trigger (SNES emulation snes9-gtx @Fedora)
Baba Is You (steam@Fedora)
Iron Marines (realtime strategy, steam@Fedora)
Particle Fleet (realtime strategy, steam@Fedora)
2020:
Control (PS4)
FTL: Faster than Light (strategy, steam@Fedora)
Portal 2 (puzzle, steam@Fedora)
Particle Fleet, user created levels with rating 8+ (realtime strategy, steam@Fedora)